WE CLIMBED A MOUNTAIN Yes. We did. With much huffing a puffing these travellers marched up Chembra Peak (near) Wayanad Nature Reserve. I don't think the photos truly picked up the tomato-red hue of my face at the top. We were a little bit nervous when setting out from our hotel as the jeep and auto-rick drivers were still on strike (Kerala has been a Communist state on and off for 50 years). Fortunately, there's always someone around doing the sneaky thing and o...

Australia is flat We had a largely uncomfortable train ride in general class yesterday. Cheree and I were more comfortable though than Luke and Anita who didn't have seats the whole 4 hours. One cheek of my buttocks laid claim to the end of a bench seat, as some ladies had put their shopping up on the bench. At one point a young lady came through and told the woman off and then proceeded to sit in the cleared space which obviously didn't improve my situation as ...